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“An Age of Great Events & Little Men” — Winston Churchill

Here’s an early glimpse of Winston Churchill’s lion roar. This was one year after Hitler came into power (March 31, 1934).

“[T]he tragedy of the twentieth century is that the development of human beings lags far behind the growth of their undertakings. We live in an age of great events and little men; and if we are not to become the slaves of our own systems … it will only be by the bold efforts of originality, by repeated experiment … and by the dispassionate consideration of the results of sustained and unflinching thought.”